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The Portrait Photographers Posing Guide: How to pose people for portraits | 
 enlarge | Author: Nigel Holmes
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 100362
Media: Paperback
Pages: 124
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1419652338
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781419652332
ASIN: 1419652338
Publication Date: November 10, 2006
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Product Description
The classic Posing Guide. Rules for posing people for portraits. Drawn in cartoons, making it easy to follow. "Serious, invaluable advise on how to pose people in photographs" Amateur Photographer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Nice, simple tool for Amatuers - But pricey September 2, 2008
I like it, anyone can find help from this. If you are new to Portraiture, then buy it. But, it is a small paperback, and overpriced for what you get......
 This book is short, sweet and to the point. July 13, 2008
I see a lot of reviewers complaining about the size of the book.
In actuality, if you're taking photos of people, every page should be memorized. The examples in this book are all over magazines and publications. The author have a good sense of humor, I can appreciate.
This book is short, sweet and to the point.
DeZ5 - Photography, Video and Audio engineer.
 Good little book July 11, 2008
The Portrait Photographers Posing Guide by Nigel Holmes is a little gem of a book (122 pages, about 5"x8") for novice portrait photographers.
It includes posing suggestions for groups, families, couples, individuals, men, women, children, and babies. It includes poses that are formal and informal. It includes suggestions for problem areas (for example, big chins, reflections off glasses) and for posing hands (10 pages!). What I really like is the four easy steps to create a head and shoulders portrait.
At the end of the book is a section with more poses:
- ideas for men (13 poses)
- ideas for women (27 poses)
- ideas for mother and children (3 poses)
- ideas for families (3 poses)
- ideas for couples (20 poses)
The book focuses on posing and does not address other portrait topics like equipment or lighting.
A book on posing but contains no photographs? That's right! All the illustrations are cartoons, and the cartoons work surprisingly well.
Criticisms (for which I deducted one star): The book is self-published and shows it. There is no table of contents. The index is poor (for example, the topic of "noses" is found at the entry "A Good Nose"). There are no chapters. There is no apparent organization.
I like this book better than professionally-published books (such as "Master Posing Guide for Portrait Photographers" by J.D. Wacker, 8.5"x11", beautiful color portaits throughout--a book I also own) because this book is simple, easy to grasp, and states specific things to do.
The book does not provide information about the author. Based on the fact that the publisher is "Nigel Holmes Enterprises" in England, he is probably a British glamor photographer, not to be confused with another Brit with the same name who is a graphic designer.
 It is worth $5. June 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bad book with suspicious reviews!
I have got many books about posing and portrait photography at about the same price but great works in term of book production, this one though I can not believe I bought it for 18 bucks plus shiping, I think the reviews are unreasonably too good (very suspicious!!), the only reason I did not return it was that my little girle chew on it,
There are much better books out there regarding posing.
In terms of paper and the material and production work I doubt it costs more than 2 dollars to produce such a book.
Informative and easy to read May 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a marvelous little book. I wanted to do some portrait photography but didn't know where to start. After reading this well written and well ilustrated book I was given a huge amount of information.
If you want to know how to pose people either individually or in groups this book will give you an enormous amount of information in a short time.
Buy it it's worth a read.
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